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PE and Sport Premium funding

We are required to publish details of  how we invest our PE and Sport Premium funding.

What is the Primary PE and Sport Premium?
The government provides funding to improve provision of physical education and sport in primary schools. This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in school.
Each school receives £8000, plus £5 per pupil on roll. This gives us a total each year of about £9,000.

For 2016-2017, our grant allocation is £8910.

How will we invest this at Moortown Primary School?
At Moortown we have developed a provision plan to ensure this funding is invested (rather than ‘spent’) to maximise the long term impact of our PE provision for pupils and staff. The funding is invested in various ways and the impact of these initiatives is closely monitored through assessment of children’s skills, staff and pupil feedback, uptake of clubs etc. At Moortown Primary, we pride ourselves on being a happy and healthy place to learn.

Our 2015/16 PE provision plan is now fully evaluated with impact from last year’s investment.

Our 2016/17 PE provision plan detailing proposed investment is also published.

Mathletics

Well done to children who, in recent weeks, have been awarded a Mathletics certificate.

We’ve not had any for a couple of weeks so why not log on and attempt some of the multiplication and division (our recent Maths learning) tasks that have been assigned.

While Mathletics is an optional activity to do at home, it’s a good way to reinforce learning which we’ve been doing in class.

Do let us know if you have any access or log in problems.

02 December 2016

The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Thursday 08 December.

I know how the 8 Rs help me to learn.

Children should consider which Rs they do and how they use them. Conversely, they should think about the Rs they could use more an when they might use them. Adults, this may be useful for you too!
A quick reminder of our 8 Rs for learning:

Responsibility, Risk-taking, Resilience, Responsive, Resourcefulness, Readiness, Reflecting, Remembering.

02 December 2016

Here are the spellings for this week:

02 December 2016

This week, as usual, we have two homeworks. Both pieces are due on Thursday 08 December 2016.

The first is Talk Time:

I can reflect on my start to the year.

This links to our current SEAL theme: The 8 Rs for learning. It is an opportunity for children to think about their own learning and their attitude towards it. In class, we reflect a lot on our learning and Y5 are very good at this. They are honest and are not afraid to admit to making mistakes: this will undoubtedly make them better learners in the future. I’d like them to be as honest in this reflection as possible. Is their attitude consistent across the day/week? Is it consistent across subjects? And most importantly, I’d like them to make suggestions for how they could improve. No matter what is said, this conversation should be positive as it should lead to improvements.

The second is Practice Makes Perfect.

I can show I understand word classes. 

We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about word classes so far this year (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, articles) and this is a chance for children to show that they have remembered this learning.

Children have been given a sheet to help them show their understanding.

Forces – levers and pulleys

This week, we started our new mini-topic: Forces. We’re focusing on levers and pulleys.

To begin with, we used some paper and a toy car to figure out what we we already know about forces. Help at home by asking your child what forces act on a toy car or a falling piece of paper.

After that, we investigated levers and pulleys. Levers and pulleys are essentially a mechanism to exert a larger amount of force with less effort. To demonstrate this we did a little experiment:

That’s right. Despite weighing less than half what I do, Noah was able to lift me up. Ask your child how this works?

We also thought about more common examples of levers and pulleys – ones we might use in everyday life like scissors (ask your child about how were going to remember the silent ‘c’ in the word scissors) and lifts.

Tomorrow, we’ll begin working on a little project, in which we’ll apply our knowledge of forces, levers and pulleys: (attempting) making a rube goldberg machine.

02 December 2016

Hyphens

This week’s spelling activity focuses on the use of hyphens. Children should sort the compound adjectives below in to words that need a hyphen and those that don’t. They need to be careful though – I’ve tried to catch them out.

man-eating         actionpacked      heavy-metal        good-luck

hand-picked        over-sleep                    mine-field            tip-toed

state-of-the-art    under-whelmed  re-organise                   re-do

reignite                cooperate           coown                 foot-ball

Next, children should add two more of their own to each column.

02 December 2016

We’ve been exploring words ending in …tious and …cious for our spelling activity and next week these are the spellings we’ll be tested on.

• vicious
• malicious
• suspicious
• precious
• conscious
• delicious
• nutritious
• surreptitious
• conscientious
• cautious
• infectious
• fictitious
• ambitious

Ten words will be tested on Friday which could be from this list or could be in one of these word’s word family.

Word families are a great way to practise spelling: infect, infectious, infecting, infected, disinfect, disinfectant. Not only do I have to write the spelling pattern over and over again, but it also highlights that there’s a ‘t’ in all of these words therefore, I’ll use a ‘t’ for the …tious spelling.

02 December 2016

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is in response to a SPaG test we’ve done this week and the mistakes we’ve picked out and addressed as a class.

Work your way through the questions, remembering what we’ve gone over together. See whether you can explain your answers clearly to an adult as this will not only prove that you understand but also improve your understanding. As a class, we’ll look through these questions together on Thursday 08 December, 2016.

02 December 2016

This week’s Talk Time homework focuses on the 8Rs for learning: reflect, remember, resilience,responsibility, safe risk, resourceful, respond, readiness.

We’ve come to the end of our SEAL theme which focuses on these Rs so it’s now time to engage our reflection skills and decide which we’re good at and which we need to improve on. Think about each R in turn and decide whether this is a strength or a weakness for you. Then consider how you can maintain those which are strengths and improve those which are weaknesses.

We’ll discuss our strengths and weaknesses on Thursday 08 December so make sure you’ve made notes and have your book for then.